Drinking attachment



I: 1 927 P. o. PADGETT DRINKING ATTACHMENT Filed Sept. 8, 1925 AT TORNEV Patented May 17, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

POWELL ID; PADGETT, OF

TO FRANK G.

DRINKING ATTACHMENT.

Application filed September 8 1925. Serial No. 55,098.

This invention relates to protecting devices and has for an object theprovision of a novel, cheap and simple article which may be placedaround the mouth of a bottle 15 or'similar container, so thatthe lattermay be used as a drinking vessel without having the lips of the drinkercontact with the vessel and thus provide a sanitary device, as well asto protect the lips from danger of 10 injury, should the edge of saidvessel be rough or sharp.

7 With the above and other objects in view, the invention furtherincludes the following novel features and details of construction,

to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a fragmentary sectional view showing aportion of the neck of a bottle with the invention applied.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the invention per se.

Figure 3 is a bottom plan view.. Referring to the drawings in detailwherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts, thereference character 10 indicates a portion of the neck of a bottle suchas is commonly used for the sale ofbeverages and it may be here statedthat while the. invention .is shown as applied to a bottle of this type,it may be used with other types of bottles, or with containers ofdifferent shapes. I

Frequently, soft drinks and other beverages are sold at roadsiderefreshment houses, or the bottled goods are carried in automobiles onpicnic or camping trips audit is frequently necessary to drink from thebottles. The mouths of the bottles are in most instances unsanitary andin a number of instances their edges are sharp or'rough. This rendersdrinking from the bottle an uncomfortable and difficult operation andfre- 45 quently the lips of the drinker are injured. ThlS is overcome inthe present invention by providing a protector which is preferablyformed of paper and which is shaped to provide a substantiallycylindrical member 11 which is open at one end and which has extendinginwardly from its opposite end an the inner and outer peripheries of theneck.

The skirt is adapted to extend downwardly within'the mouth of the bottleso that if .there should be broken glass or any other foreign substancein the bottle, it will lodge behind this skirt when the bottle isinverted, preventing any such substance from outer ing the mouth of thedrinker, this apron and the flange together forming a complete coveringfor the mouth of the bottle so that the lips of the drinker cannotcontact with any portion of the bottle.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportionsand minor details of construction and the right is herein reserved tomake such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appendedclaim.

Having described the inventionwhat is claimed is In a protecting devicefor bottles, a hollow substantially cylindrical member open at one endand adapted to be positioned around the neck of the bottle, an annularflange extending inwardly from the vopposite end of said member and anannular skirtextending downwardly from the inner edge of the flange andadapted to enter-the mouth of the bottle, said skirt decreasin indiameter from its outer to its inner en and providing an annular neckreceiving chamber having a cylindrical outer wall and a relativelyinclined inner wall.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

1 POWELL D. PADGETT.

